The creative sector is playing an increasingly significant role in raising awareness of climate change and encouraging sustainable social, economic, and environmental practices worldwide.
Exploring the Ways Arts and Culture Intersects with Housing
As the field of creative placemaking evolves, its proponents and practitioners are continuing to learn about the value of arts-based strategies for enacting change in communities, and how these strategies can be most effective in addressing persistent challenges.
The Practice of Partnership: High-Impact Arts Education Partnerships with K-12 Schools
The MetLife Foundation Partners in Arts Education (PIAE) program, begun in 2005, developed out of shared fundamental values of the MetLife Foundation and the National Guild for Community Arts Education. Their common beliefs were that access to arts education must be universal, must address issues of inequity, and must take place over a sustained period to have durable impact. The two institutions chose to invest in the development of the practice of partnership because they recognized that the ability to partner well makes a significant difference in the quality of arts learning.
State of the States 2016
The State of the States 2016 summarizes state policies for arts education identified in statute or code for all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
ESSA: Mapping opportunities for the arts
This special report highlights the ways that states and districts can engage the arts in the ongoing work of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
Racial/Ethnic and Gender Diversity in the Orchestra Field
This is a time of transformation, not only for communities across America but also for the cultural institutions that reflect and help to shape their identities. The work of orchestras is shifting and intensifying, as orchestras recognize and respond to sweeping cultural, social, political, economic, technological, and demographic change within the communities they serve.
